She is Olivia Reinhart. Her adoptive mother, the one who later gave her up, gave her the name and the courts legalized it. But, her real name is Ariel Benson, the three year old girl left in a Walmart by the man who rescued her from the woods where her parents were shot. That day determined the shape of her life.
Now, fourteen years later as an emancipated minor, Olivia decides to alter her course and attends the funeral of her father. His bones have been recently discovered, and suddenly, the "fact' that he was the murderer is not so factual. Olivia/Ariel moves back to her hometown, and begins poking around searching for the real killer, and finding him may prove fatal.
Well-paced, The Girl I Used to Be draws the reader in piece by pieced, enticing them to tug at the string of the tightly woven thriller. Bruised and battered by the foster care system and by well meaning adults, it is logical that Olivia would tackle her task independently. She moves through the suspects smoothly, but not without mistakes making the ending confrontation more believable.
As a mystery-thriller fan and a young adult librarian, I would recommend this well written novel to readers who are growing weary of the tried and tired plots in the adult thriller novels out there.The
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